author's works

Margeret Atwood         Margaret Atwood's the Handmaids Tale (Maxnotes.) chilling, compelling, unforgetable This book absolutely must be devoured. It is a tale so moving and compelling you feel driven to complete it. Move over Orwell's "1984." You become even more engrossed in this story. The reality of it takes over your own. The eventual outcome of our heroine is never revealed, although the... Read more   Handmaid's Tale It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can... Read more   The Blind Assassin [UNABRIDGED] Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality... Read more   Cat's Eye Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories.... read more More Books by Margaret Atwood

articles and reviews

from THE NEW YORK TIMES - February 9, 1986 THE HANDMAID'S TALE reviewed by Mary McCarthy SURELY the essential element of a cautionary tale is recognition. Surprised recognition, even, enough to administer a shock. We are warned, by seeing our present selves in a distorting mirror, of what we may be turning into if current trends are allowed to continue. That was the effect of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four,'' with its scary dating, not 40 years ahead, maybe also of ''Brave New World'' and, to some extent, of ''A Clockwork Orange.'' It is an effect, for me, almost strikingly missing from Margaret Atwood's very readable book ''The Handmaid's Tale,'' offered by the publisher as a ''forecast'' of what we may have in store for us in the quite near future. A standoff will have been achieved vis-a-vis the Russians, and our own country will be ruled by right-wingers and religious fundamentalists, with males restored to the traditional role of warriors and us females to our ''place'' - which, however, will have undergone subdivision into separate sectors, of wives, breeders, servants and so forth, each clothed in the appropriate uniform. A fresh postfeminist approach to future shock, you might say. Yet the book just does not tell me what there is in our present mores that I ought to watch out for unless I want the United States of America to become a slave state something like the Republic of Gilead whose outlines are here sketched out... [more]

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Alias Grace Bodily Harm Cat's Eye Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Lady Oracle Life Before Man Poetry Robber Bride, The Surfacing See Also: World > Deutsch > Kultur > Literatur > Autoren und Autorinnen > A > Atwood, Margaret Margaret Atwood Information Web Site - The author's personal site includes biographical facts, awards, articles, transcripts, bibliography, reviews, and links to other resources. The Atwood Society's Margaret Atwood Information Site - Includes an overview of the Society and an extensive bibliography, as well as links to other resources. Sarah Rice's Margaret Atwood Site - Biography, awards, honorary degrees, bibliography, and secondary criticisms. Atwood, Margaret Eleanor - Entry from The Canadian and World Encyclopedia. On Atwood - Review of 'Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works'. Canadian Poetry - Biography, poems, writing philosophy, and published works. Jam! Books - Several newspaper articles. The Unofficial Shrine of Margaret Atwood - Brief biography, bibliography, and review of Alias Grace. Reconstructing the Wilderness: Margaret Atwood's Reading of Susanna Moodie - Essay by Susan Johnston. Literature by Canadian Authors: Margaret Atwood - A brief profile and bibliography from the B. Macabee's Booksellers website. Interview with Margaret Atwood - By Raymond H. Thompson in the series 'Thompson's Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature'. Margaret Atwood Discussion Forum - Post and read messages about Margaret Atwood. Atwood at a Glance - Reviews of several books. Margaret Atwood: Once in August - Abstract of an hour-long video about two film-makers' visit to Atwood's family retreat. Girl Guide's Honour - Review of Nathalie Cooke's 'Margaret Atwood: A Biography'. TheReadersVine - Margaret Atwood - An online community for book readers and writers, including reading groups and message boards. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor Search for "Atwood, Margaret" on All the Web -  AltaVista -  Direct Hit -  Goto -  Infoseek -  LookSmart -  Webcrawler -  Yahoo!

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